Study Aids
Legal study aids are books, flashcards, flowcharts, and other materials designed to help you make sense of the material you cover in class and successfully brief cases, outline for a course, and prepare for exams. Study aids vary in format and content and come from many publishers. Some popular series titles include the Nutshell series, Examples & Explanations series, Gilbert Law Summaries, Glannon Guides, and the Question & Answer series.
The Law Library offers access to these and other popular titles to College of Law students through its online subscriptions to Aspen Learning Library and West Academic Study Aids, as well as via a robust print Study Skills Collection.
Study Aids Quick Reference (PDF)
Provides hyperlinks and summary guidance for our most popular online study aids.
A Look Inside Study Aids (PDF)
Provides more detailed information about the features of each series in our online study aids subscriptions.
Study Skills Collection
The Study Skills Collection is located on the third floor of the Law Library, across from the Circulation Desk. The collection brings together an array of print study aids, legal research and writing texts, exam, and Bar exam prep materials. All materials in the Study Skills Collection may be checked out for two weeks and are renewable twice.
Aspen Learning Library
Aspen Learning Library provides unlimited online access to hundreds of titles. Some series that are available include Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, and Glannon Guides.
Register for an account using your ASU email address to ensure off-campus access and save notes, bookmarks, and highlights. You can also download the Aspen Learning Library App for iOS, Android, and Windows.
West Academic Study Aids
West Academic Study Aids offers easy online access to hundreds of study aids, treatises, and audio lectures. Available series include Nutshells, Gilbert Law Summaries, the Acing series, and Sum & Substance Audio.
Use this link to create an account: https://signin.westacademic.com, using your ASU email address as your username. If you encounter a reCAPTCHA error during the account creation process, please verify you are using the https://signin.westacademic.com url to create your account.
Creating an account will ensure off-campus access and allow you to print, download, highlight, and save notes. You can also download the ereader Bookshelf app and West Academic Audio app from the Apple App store or Google Play.
CALI
CALI Lessons are designed to help you become accustomed to taking multiple-choice examinations and provide feedback on your answers. CALI offers more than 1,000 interactive tutorials on legal education topics, from 1L subjects such as Torts and Contracts, to upper-level classes including Administrative Law and Commercial Transactions. It also has legal research tutorials for most state jurisdictions and federal cases, statutes, and regulations. Law students can find instructions to register for a CALI account by visiting Access to CALI or by contacting Ask a Law Librarian.
Past Exams
Many law faculty make their past exams available to students as a study aid and sometimes include model answers. To see if your professor has released past exams, check out the library's Past Exams database. Exams administered within the past 10 years are available online.
Bar Exam
The library's Bar Exam and MPRE Resource Guide highlights important information and services for Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law students as they prepare to take the bar examination in Arizona or elsewhere. Online Bar Study (PDF) provides hyperlinks and detailed information about select online bar prep study aids.